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and we are seeing many of those in the united states. for example, if you look at public sector compensation in the united states, for -- since 1980, it has been much higher than the average private sector compensation. this is quite surprising to people like me who looks to the united states as sort of a home to entrepreneurs in the private sector. but beyond that, already 45% of americans don't pay federal taxes. a lot of the issues we are hearing around things like health care and entitlements, which has been a big issue, in wisconsin, pension reform and pension liabilities, i think all of that together, the united states is leaning on the public sector than traditionally we have known. tavis: your comment about public sector notwithstanding, i don't know how one can make the argument when you look at the numbers of the gap, the growing gap over these years between the pay of c.e.o.'s and the heads of companies and the workers in those companies. beating up on the public sector is the easy thing, but the private sector, the gap betwee
and we are seeing many of those in the united states. for example, if you look at public sector compensation in the united states, for -- since 1980, it has been much higher than the average private sector compensation. this is quite surprising to people like me who looks to the united states as sort of a home to entrepreneurs in the private sector. but beyond that, already 45% of americans don't pay federal taxes. a lot of the issues we are hearing around things like health care and...
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russia is not the united states and is never going to represent the united states for geographic and other reasons. the russian empire and soviet union more not accidental and bound together economically and politically regions that have a mutual dependence. the visions of the liberals in russia and the united states was that the soviet union was reoriented itself towards europe and the united states. if they fail to understand these countries could not compete at any reasonable time frame in europe. the more dependent they became one europe the weaker they became. and also forgot that russia is a geopolitical entry. its experience some terrible war in its history and it's extremely cautious about the expansion of things like nato. re nato as a military alliance. we regard it as a club of nice people. fairly mismatched about what it is and it is the united states moved into the baltics and nato has the orange revolution of ukraine to cough and the united states became very influential to central asia they saw the second the encirclement taking place, so if the containment one it was
russia is not the united states and is never going to represent the united states for geographic and other reasons. the russian empire and soviet union more not accidental and bound together economically and politically regions that have a mutual dependence. the visions of the liberals in russia and the united states was that the soviet union was reoriented itself towards europe and the united states. if they fail to understand these countries could not compete at any reasonable time frame in...
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russia is not the united states and is never going to resemble the united states for geographic and other reasons. the russian empire in the soviet union were not accidental. they balanced regions with a mutual dependence. the vision of the liberals in russia and in the united states was that falling the soviet union was reorienting themselves towards europe and the united states. they failed to understand that these countries could not compete in any reasonable timeframe in europe. the more dependent they were on europe, the weaker they became, and also forgot that russia is a geopolitical entity. it experienced some terrible wars in its history, and it's extremely cautious about the expansion of things like nato. they regard nato as a military alliance, and we regard it as a club of nice people. it's a mismatch of what it is, and as the united states moved into the baltics and the revolution of ukraine took off and the united states became influ enissue in asia. if containment won after world war ii, pudin from the kgb saw a second engagement. they stopped trying to do what stalin did t
russia is not the united states and is never going to resemble the united states for geographic and other reasons. the russian empire in the soviet union were not accidental. they balanced regions with a mutual dependence. the vision of the liberals in russia and in the united states was that falling the soviet union was reorienting themselves towards europe and the united states. they failed to understand that these countries could not compete in any reasonable timeframe in europe. the more...
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states is a world leader whether we care to admit that it or not so the reality is the united states is going to have influence we do have influence and in egypt the question is how can we exercise that influence to help the egyptian people themselves make the transition to democracy the military is the key institution here we've had egyptian generals egyptian officers train in the u.s. attend some of our military academies for at least the past two decades we're very close relations with them one reason this crisis didn't turn out badly and didn't become a bloodbath in all candor was because of those close relationships with it that we have with the u.s. military they're in control right now we need to work very closely with them to develop the sort of institutions and processes that will allow the egyptian people to move toward liberal democracy if i go to you in seattle here i mean we you know i am sure i am sure peter that if you. if you ask most egyptians they would say to john and to such and such discourses thanks but no thanks you have done enough damage for thirty years and
states is a world leader whether we care to admit that it or not so the reality is the united states is going to have influence we do have influence and in egypt the question is how can we exercise that influence to help the egyptian people themselves make the transition to democracy the military is the key institution here we've had egyptian generals egyptian officers train in the u.s. attend some of our military academies for at least the past two decades we're very close relations with them...
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i cannot believe that the united states would choose to go to war, welcome as the united states did with spain in 1894. without a lot of people saying wait a minute, we can't afford it. do you know what that's going to do to the deficit? so the united states may have reverted now, recently sent a financial meltdown of 2008, to the way the country was before the very that i talk about. it wasn't that rich, and war like any other kind of national activity, something that cost money. and when the money gets tight, some people think strong second thoughts about were. i will stop there. i have spoken longer than i intended to but now we can do questions, right? [applause] >> fascinating. my question is regarding the spanish-american war. i can see why with my desire to take cuba and puerto rico from strategic and even economic interests, but what was the interest in the philippines other than perhaps competing with the french and the germans and the british in terms of some sort of worldwide manifest destiny? >> as a matter fact that was the principal reason for considering the philippines fa
i cannot believe that the united states would choose to go to war, welcome as the united states did with spain in 1894. without a lot of people saying wait a minute, we can't afford it. do you know what that's going to do to the deficit? so the united states may have reverted now, recently sent a financial meltdown of 2008, to the way the country was before the very that i talk about. it wasn't that rich, and war like any other kind of national activity, something that cost money. and when the...
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democracy isn't a marsh it's not recognized at least by the united states and its allies and then the united states has been a huge impediment to democracy in the arab world since its inception since independence so what is its track record. its track record is very negative as many serious american historians admit to themselves throughout the cold war period when the big enemy was communism the united states not just in the middle east but also in south america it was prepared to tolerate tyrants dictators butchers of their people because it's there in cross with the end of the cold war. humanitarianism became one of the ideological pillars except in those countries where it wasn't convenient so we've seen in the middle east in particular. the dictatorship in egypt which appears to be collapsing as we speak which has been there for the last twenty five to thirty years we have seen regimes over twenty years long in the matter of b.m. countries to miss morocco algeria we've seen the toleration of a completely authoritarian brutal monarchy in saudi arabia jordan itself has been reduced
democracy isn't a marsh it's not recognized at least by the united states and its allies and then the united states has been a huge impediment to democracy in the arab world since its inception since independence so what is its track record. its track record is very negative as many serious american historians admit to themselves throughout the cold war period when the big enemy was communism the united states not just in the middle east but also in south america it was prepared to tolerate...
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at the end of the day, tehran is scared of the united states. china is scared of the united states. if there's going to be an issue, that requires an understanding between the united states and the government of iran and north korea that deals with their security issues. that can come only from washington. it can't come from brussels or moscow or anywhere else. that's why i think you need the multilateral and unilateral to be working hand in hand. >> you mention the number four or five factors that are very important for peace to break out. and i was wondering whether you would be -- whether you would comment on what's happening in europe. which of those factors that you mentioned have been your viewer specially responsible for peace to break out in europe and where do you see our weaknesses, in other words, what do you expect of europe in the future in terms of further integration? >> well, i think that this story of european integration and of peace deepening it's routes after world war ii was a product of that same kind of story that i told. fundamental understanding between fran
at the end of the day, tehran is scared of the united states. china is scared of the united states. if there's going to be an issue, that requires an understanding between the united states and the government of iran and north korea that deals with their security issues. that can come only from washington. it can't come from brussels or moscow or anywhere else. that's why i think you need the multilateral and unilateral to be working hand in hand. >> you mention the number four or five...
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states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government in the british government a little east founder julian assange threatening to sue the guardian paper over its tell all book about the online whistleblower well the newspaper is also being accused of redacted of the diplomatic cables it received from the website in order to fit its oil policy. reports on what's behind the bitter dispute. they were bedfellows in exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world but now wiki leaks and the guardian have rapidly fallen out of love and it's turning nasty in the original agreement between wiki leaks and its partner publications the partners were to help publish cables on the whistle blowing web site blocking out names to protect the innocent was allowed but sources close to wiki leaks maintain the guardian went one step further accusing the newspaper of redacting the cables to suit its own political and editorial agenda something the guardian denies one of the alleged missions focuses on iranian dissident politicians in
states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government in the british government a little east founder julian assange threatening to sue the guardian paper over its tell all book about the online whistleblower well the newspaper is also being accused of redacted of the diplomatic cables it received from the website in order to fit its oil policy. reports on what's behind the bitter dispute. they were bedfellows in exposing...
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well i don't know that we would find that keeping united states soldiers and united states security contractors. wealth and a with access to some of the amenities that they would expect at home and the enormous expense and brother that you know it's there are seven thousand trucks per day crossing into afghanistan to service the united states troop presence and each of those trucks can sometimes cross as much as one thousand dollars per day just to cross certain stretches of road and that money goes right into the hands of maybe taliban warlords and certainly other kinds of drug lords and people who have control over the roads i don't know that we would expect that this is going to somehow be of benefit to people in afghanistan and the idea that if the united states is able to train and create small groups armed. militias in every single village that this is going to create security has been recruited by reputable or non-governmental organisations who are actually begging the international security assistance forces and nato in the united states to reconsider that or hardy plan it's a prescript
well i don't know that we would find that keeping united states soldiers and united states security contractors. wealth and a with access to some of the amenities that they would expect at home and the enormous expense and brother that you know it's there are seven thousand trucks per day crossing into afghanistan to service the united states troop presence and each of those trucks can sometimes cross as much as one thousand dollars per day just to cross certain stretches of road and that money...
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states and the united states which is very much to keep him in power according to even jimmy carter the american truly want mubarak to stay but that is no longer possible carol but they do not want to see the regime swept away. all right well washington has been supporting mubarak's regime for almost thirty years but then we've heard the u.s. president sort of changing his rhetoric so why do you think that is. well it's almost identical to what happened during the xargs reign the united states have as as the revolution in iran gained strength and power the americans became more and more muted in their support of the shah but it was much too little and much too late to the iranian people never forgave the americans the role that is being played now by the american administration is very similar they're not on the side of the people in the people recognize that they're playing a double game they're on the one hand very much on the side of the establishment on the side of. the mouse so they man but on the other hand they tell the egypt and people that they they hear their voices and th
states and the united states which is very much to keep him in power according to even jimmy carter the american truly want mubarak to stay but that is no longer possible carol but they do not want to see the regime swept away. all right well washington has been supporting mubarak's regime for almost thirty years but then we've heard the u.s. president sort of changing his rhetoric so why do you think that is. well it's almost identical to what happened during the xargs reign the united states...
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the arms are bought in the united states. the consumers are in the united states. once the drugs cross the boarder where do they go? who consumes them who are the north american capitalists? we don't know about that. we nomex can criminals. we don't know anything about u.s. laundering of money. >> rose: what do you mean by "u.s. laundering of money"? >> things are laundered in this country. once we cross the border what happens? we don't know where the drugs go how they... the money is laundered. drug money is laundered, the consumption,s where it? >> rose: so what are you suggesting? >> i'm suggesting mexico and the united states come together and decide on a common policy to fight this this is a problem that is not unilateral or bilateral. it has become a global problem. i'm part of a group headed by the former presidents of colombia and mexico in which we propose starting to think about a world of legalized drugs. >> rose: legalized drugs or legalized... >> yeah. the consumption of drugs can be legalized, not penalized. for example drug takers should not be sent
the arms are bought in the united states. the consumers are in the united states. once the drugs cross the boarder where do they go? who consumes them who are the north american capitalists? we don't know about that. we nomex can criminals. we don't know anything about u.s. laundering of money. >> rose: what do you mean by "u.s. laundering of money"? >> things are laundered in this country. once we cross the border what happens? we don't know where the drugs go how they......
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states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government and the british government. when the wiki leaks founder julian assange has also said for another high court battle he's accused the guardian newspaper of malicious libel over its tell all account of the online whistleblower the british chinese also being blamed for adjusting wiki leaks diplomatic cables to fit its editorial policy when aussies or emirates has more now on the rift between the x. friends thing. they were bedfellows in exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world but now wiki leaks in the guardian has rapidly fallen out of love and it's turning nasty in the original agreement between wiki leaks and its partner publications the partners was to help publish cables on the whistle blowing web site blocking out names to protect the innocent was allowed but sources close to wiki leaks maintain the guardian went one step further accusing the newspaper of redacting the cables to suit its own political and editorial agenda something the guardian denies o
states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government and the british government. when the wiki leaks founder julian assange has also said for another high court battle he's accused the guardian newspaper of malicious libel over its tell all account of the online whistleblower the british chinese also being blamed for adjusting wiki leaks diplomatic cables to fit its editorial policy when aussies or emirates has more now...
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states is trying democracy the united states does not want freedom in the region because free egypt would mean trouble for israel a free saudi arabia free back reign would be trouble for american interests in the region just today a large number of battery knees were killed come you know when you look at this small population of relatively speaking it would be something like a thousand people dying in tehran. six seven or eight people who were killed because the population in the country is only half a million but the us was the us position on battery and that battery and is an ally and it calls on both sides to refrain from violence that is you know that is extraordinary so there is no doubt that the united states is deterring democracy and the fact that the united states is actually pushing so hard for you know so-called regime change in iran is one reason why the green movement has no longer any popularity in the country the fact that the state department is behind it supporting it the fact that they are funded the fact that they have aligned themselves with terrorist organizatio
states is trying democracy the united states does not want freedom in the region because free egypt would mean trouble for israel a free saudi arabia free back reign would be trouble for american interests in the region just today a large number of battery knees were killed come you know when you look at this small population of relatively speaking it would be something like a thousand people dying in tehran. six seven or eight people who were killed because the population in the country is...
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states and the united states because it's bound its foreign policy to israel it's desperately trying to kape keep the status quo and it sees iran as a major problem it sees that in the future will have more difficulty confronting iran because there will be new actors in the region which will be against american foreign policy and is trying desperately to overthrow the regime or i would call it this time a republic but it will fail david if i can ask you is one of the interesting things is and i to reflect upon with something professor marandi said is that you know even though if the united states you know one level says it wants to see democracy in i don't know you know after favoring dictators for so many dictators decades it's hard to believe that but in the case unlikely supporting the green movement i mean when the u.s. openly says it supports the green movement don't a lot of people in iran just go sour on it i mean that happens in. in a lot of places you know when an outsider says oh we like this guy he's our winner i mean if they're tainted by outsiders in a lot of people want
states and the united states because it's bound its foreign policy to israel it's desperately trying to kape keep the status quo and it sees iran as a major problem it sees that in the future will have more difficulty confronting iran because there will be new actors in the region which will be against american foreign policy and is trying desperately to overthrow the regime or i would call it this time a republic but it will fail david if i can ask you is one of the interesting things is and i...
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this is the united states of america. he got into office and he found it extremely difficult to realize that potential. i do think that we need a person of the extraordinary potential at this time because as i said, i think that the challenges that we face right now are every bit as severe as they were in world war ii or in dealing with the soviet union or the missile gap or whenever it was, but we don't have a political system, at least now, that is capable of rising to the occasion as we did earlier. i see it as an urgent national task to fix the political system. otherwise i think we are going to be in trouble. >> i'd be interested in your thoughts on the boundary between the united states and mexico, to countries which on the surface would appear to be very friendly if elected the cultures that both embrace, but obviously a tremendous tensions exist between the drug issues and the immigration issues. is there anything that your studies might reveal that would help untangle that situation? >> well, one of the things th
this is the united states of america. he got into office and he found it extremely difficult to realize that potential. i do think that we need a person of the extraordinary potential at this time because as i said, i think that the challenges that we face right now are every bit as severe as they were in world war ii or in dealing with the soviet union or the missile gap or whenever it was, but we don't have a political system, at least now, that is capable of rising to the occasion as we did...
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united states keep in mind to the u.s. is coming and negative a great power and the levying with the growing economic power, the president dispatches a note to london that says this dispute is in the western hemisphere and is in our backyard and we recommend you take this to neutral arbitration. lowered sells very discusses this with his cabinet sees it as the affront to the british empire and dispatches a note back to washington that says forget about it. at this point* there is talk of war in congress and a sense united states has been ashamed and embarrassed by this and talk of the british empire continuing to tread where it should not be trespassing of american interest and once talk of war is swirling the british cabinet reconvenes and lowered sells very calls in the admiralty and says what do we do? are you ready to go to war against united states? he walks away and sees a rising america and rising germany. rising japan they're getting uppity in south africa and they go back to the lowered and says we cannot do this.
united states keep in mind to the u.s. is coming and negative a great power and the levying with the growing economic power, the president dispatches a note to london that says this dispute is in the western hemisphere and is in our backyard and we recommend you take this to neutral arbitration. lowered sells very discusses this with his cabinet sees it as the affront to the british empire and dispatches a note back to washington that says forget about it. at this point* there is talk of war in...
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states supported mubarak the united states supported benelli in tunisia the united states in recent years supported in many ways moammar gadhafi and i think you know one of the problems now is that the governments the people who come to power as we've seen i mean in tunisia where the french ambassador just heckled out of. it was just heckled first for statements that he made because people remember who was on their side i mean one of the reasons actually that moammar gadhafi retains for instance the friendship of south africa is that he supported the south african freedom struggle where many people in the west did not and i think it's always better in the long run to be on the right side of history to be on the people side mark go ahead go ahead finish up go ahead just in terms of the war on terror i mean the way the war on terror was fought has actually you know created many more terrorists then than there were to begin with i mean throughout the middle east kuantan imo abu ghraib are symbols that are recruiting tools for terrorism and it's clear that in the words of donald rumsfel
states supported mubarak the united states supported benelli in tunisia the united states in recent years supported in many ways moammar gadhafi and i think you know one of the problems now is that the governments the people who come to power as we've seen i mean in tunisia where the french ambassador just heckled out of. it was just heckled first for statements that he made because people remember who was on their side i mean one of the reasons actually that moammar gadhafi retains for...
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states and the united kingdom that. hey wait a second lesson embrace the jockey and he does not look under the. word is terrorist past your lockerbie why for that reason the terror reason but also because the doctor said hey listen i'll let all your oil companies come in they can drill i've got forty four billion barrels of oil which it does have and incidentally. a lot of about fourteen fifty or no oil companies big big companies including gas prices. but just then taking a little further in terms of very current events i mean do you think you want to spend do you think you know president obama when he decides to speak out say about hosni mubarak stepping down in egypt what does he weigh in terms of ok how is this going to affect oil why do you think this is why we haven't heard as much on libya i mean how much of a factor is or will the u.s. is ability to speak out on all these things. when i see a little bit the office and i see that the united that obama is not speak out much on mubarak and did speak out on the dock
states and the united kingdom that. hey wait a second lesson embrace the jockey and he does not look under the. word is terrorist past your lockerbie why for that reason the terror reason but also because the doctor said hey listen i'll let all your oil companies come in they can drill i've got forty four billion barrels of oil which it does have and incidentally. a lot of about fourteen fifty or no oil companies big big companies including gas prices. but just then taking a little further in...
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states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government and the british government so that's that's not assurance enough unfortunately now there's been some politicians on capitol hill that have been calling for for a sausage to face the death penalty if indeed assad was to be extradited to america do you think the death penalty really is a reality for him. the united states is capable of anything it's it's a rogue state as they like to call others we've seen how they've handled people in guantanamo children we've seen this this president now is trying to get a law that will allow them legally to assassinate without. without any court. u.s. citizens anywhere in the world they do this already but now they want a law that allows them this you know the german nazis they could make laws to you can you can make any law you weren't and that doesn't make it just. i'm afraid that that they could very well assassinate this man either legally or not legally the former ambassador to denmark where i live james cain has also
states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government and the british government so that's that's not assurance enough unfortunately now there's been some politicians on capitol hill that have been calling for for a sausage to face the death penalty if indeed assad was to be extradited to america do you think the death penalty really is a reality for him. the united states is capable of anything it's it's a rogue state as...
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states the extradition case is going to be used as an as a pretext by the united states to get hold of junior sound which. we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in quantity. and actually basically pursuit of some kind of. charges it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just is happen if if june in the sand is going to be extradited to sweden and i was what i'm seeing in terms of how people responding to the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the the freedom of information we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy. in just a moment as we're going to be talking about. bedfellows. with . wiki leaks. with. web site that's coming your way next hour long with. a rock look at the plight of christians forced to flee their homes after being targeted by extremists. with the russian government trying to rein in the country's excessive drinking it seems their efforts may be missing the real root of the problem. now finds out abo
states the extradition case is going to be used as an as a pretext by the united states to get hold of junior sound which. we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in quantity. and actually basically pursuit of some kind of. charges it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just is happen if if june in the sand is going to be extradited to sweden and i was what i'm seeing in terms of how people...
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in the united states and so forth. how does this all play into julian assange and the sex and spy programs and the push alternately for his extradition it's a hot potato as you can understand for the government here. now that they have been exposed through various wiki the leaks. as having. colluded with the united states the ways that they had never before admitted it was often suspected. it's an especially delicate time for them to go out and openly cooperate with an extradition process and reinfeld as i understand the prime minister has apparently declared that this is not a political issue we haven't completely through the judiciary and so on and so forth i think he is not entirely candid there. whatever happens as a result of the trial the united states will probably request that he be extradited for these crimes that they're trying to invent you know he was in the united states and that would be a separate process and that's the process usually is first processed by the immigration department and as i understand
in the united states and so forth. how does this all play into julian assange and the sex and spy programs and the push alternately for his extradition it's a hot potato as you can understand for the government here. now that they have been exposed through various wiki the leaks. as having. colluded with the united states the ways that they had never before admitted it was often suspected. it's an especially delicate time for them to go out and openly cooperate with an extradition process and...
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and that would include the united states. but it wouldn't be limited to the united states. we do much of the same work that richard was describing. we do internationally. and then we then provide information to the member countries to keep them abreast of developments in the situation. also i mention we have emergency response training exercises. those training exercises are based on case studies, scenarios, and we look at real -- we don't make them up. we look at the real world. we say, for example, if there's a disruption there. then we let teams come from the member countries and from the nonmember. we have several teams working on the same problem. then we see what they come up with. we then debate whether or not this person's response, or team's response was the best one or if there was one that was better. that way we all learn at the same time. we learn at the specifics of the issues. but we also learn about different points of view and how to work with one another. that comes into vary -- quite a bit of good use when we have a real crisis. >> one good example in the
and that would include the united states. but it wouldn't be limited to the united states. we do much of the same work that richard was describing. we do internationally. and then we then provide information to the member countries to keep them abreast of developments in the situation. also i mention we have emergency response training exercises. those training exercises are based on case studies, scenarios, and we look at real -- we don't make them up. we look at the real world. we say, for...
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narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underg
narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic...
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of the united states. this was on the eve of your first overseas trip to asia. those of us who are asia watchers were very happy that you were going to asia first, and it was your first major speech on the renewed u.s. commitment to engage with asian powers. right before the program i definitely and distinctly remember getting a call from richard. he was on his way to pakistan, his first trip as your special representative to afghanistan and pakistan. imagine his surprise that he didn't even know that you would be speaking at the asia society. and it wasn't because he had twisted your arm. he was very proud of the fact that your office had reached out to us without his prodding as it was always the case before then. at that point i knew that we could actually go on without richard being our leader. much has happened since that first speech that you gave here, secretary clinton. ambassador holbrooke is no longer with us, and we feel his loss acutely every day. in your tenure so far in this two years, you've
of the united states. this was on the eve of your first overseas trip to asia. those of us who are asia watchers were very happy that you were going to asia first, and it was your first major speech on the renewed u.s. commitment to engage with asian powers. right before the program i definitely and distinctly remember getting a call from richard. he was on his way to pakistan, his first trip as your special representative to afghanistan and pakistan. imagine his surprise that he didn't even...
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at what we have inside the united states. now russia's most wanted terrorists model of claimed the ork he orchestrated the deadly suicide attack on moscow's idea of an airport last month while the incident drew attention to serious lapses in security at transport hubs which as the country's president himself has discovered have it all been addressed. looks at this week's developments russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more innocent lives have been taken by his deadly complain chechen born model said this week he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the my idea of the war of made the claims in a video message posted on an extremist website he described the suicide bombing as his special operate and promised more terrorist attacks security experts say the massachusetts in feel says why he's no longer described as just a chechen will lot but as an international terrorist these groups move more fiercely round the world and you know their own down to operate in parts of afghanistan but some have been skepti
at what we have inside the united states. now russia's most wanted terrorists model of claimed the ork he orchestrated the deadly suicide attack on moscow's idea of an airport last month while the incident drew attention to serious lapses in security at transport hubs which as the country's president himself has discovered have it all been addressed. looks at this week's developments russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more innocent lives have been taken by his deadly complain...
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states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government and the british government. you without a life are moscow words now just approaching the ten minute mark of the hour now stuck in a vicious debt circle an increasing number of americans find themselves unable to afford the bare necessities of life the looks of a wave of bankruptcy and the government's struggle to cope with the debt crisis. let's turn our attention to egypt now where the anti-government protesters show no sign of giving up after two weeks of revolt the country's new cabinet is set to have its first meeting as thousands maintain a human chain in cairo's central square they're still demanding that president hosni mubarak step down but as always paul asli a reporter trees in the egyptian capital she says that parts of the city are trying to return to normal life. life here in downtown cairo is slowly returning to some kind of normality a short time ago i got caught in my first traffic jam and a policeman helped me cross the street so the police
states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government and the british government. you without a life are moscow words now just approaching the ten minute mark of the hour now stuck in a vicious debt circle an increasing number of americans find themselves unable to afford the bare necessities of life the looks of a wave of bankruptcy and the government's struggle to cope with the debt crisis. let's turn our attention to...
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do the ariens of the united states over many years from. questions of. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia freddy's is particularly strong now with a right leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying and sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian assange is wanted by quite a team and the songe wiki leaks case. seems to be just the next continuation of this very old intelligence relationship here's some other relationships we dug up julian assange just ticks off the us with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source and love and he is a get over two million homeowners it is a criminal only ought to be hunted down and grabbed and put on trial for war used earlier these words from karl rove who claims he's part swedish and just happens to be advising the country's pm while the former swedish minister of justice is a partner in the firm who filed charges against a songe for sex crimes with another link to the us thomas von stroheim is claimed to have handed the ci
do the ariens of the united states over many years from. questions of. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia freddy's is particularly strong now with a right leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying and sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian assange is wanted by quite a team and the songe wiki leaks case. seems to be just the next continuation of this very old intelligence relationship here's some other relationships we dug up julian assange just ticks...
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on the ground in cairo it was not about the united states. it was about their own domestic politics. >> that's true. but if you were going to change the people in power, then you would -- there is a notion that the foreign policy of the past was part of the sort of array of issues that was a problem. there is that notion there's certainly people of people who field mubarak was too close of a colleague in the united states and all of those courses required you to get rid of. that's the concern. whether they will want to thread a needle which keeps our relationship with israel. it's to hard to know. >> israel feels isolated. >> it feels very isolated. first, it is isolated. there is not a leader in the region that has a relationship with -- king of jordan refused to meet him. to the best of my knowledge there's been no meeting between him and king abdullah of saudi arabia or any major official. and air 1 of turkey has turned very angry toward israel. so turkey, jordan egypt were the three main relationships. he doesn't have one. >> but if you r
on the ground in cairo it was not about the united states. it was about their own domestic politics. >> that's true. but if you were going to change the people in power, then you would -- there is a notion that the foreign policy of the past was part of the sort of array of issues that was a problem. there is that notion there's certainly people of people who field mubarak was too close of a colleague in the united states and all of those courses required you to get rid of. that's the...
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mcclure is held by this united states senate. before i ask unanimous consent to take action on the resolution, i would ask if senator risch had anything further that he would like to add. mr. risch: thank you, senator crapo. i think we have gone through the various things that jim mcclure was known for. it is a true loss to idaho and a true loss to the nation. he was held in such high regard by all idahoans, and i'm proud to be a person holding his seat. he was a cofounder and a charter member of the steering committee here on the republican side. and the steering committee was a group that was brought together to talk about and develop policies from a conservative standpoint for the nation. it certainly was something that has been very helpful to the republican conference over the many years. senator mcclure will be remembered for that, and we certainly thank him for that. i yield the floor to senator crapo. mr. crapo: thank you, senator risch. the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. mr. crapo: before i ask unanimous cons
mcclure is held by this united states senate. before i ask unanimous consent to take action on the resolution, i would ask if senator risch had anything further that he would like to add. mr. risch: thank you, senator crapo. i think we have gone through the various things that jim mcclure was known for. it is a true loss to idaho and a true loss to the nation. he was held in such high regard by all idahoans, and i'm proud to be a person holding his seat. he was a cofounder and a charter member...
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one, the united states doesn't have the same length in libya as it did in egypt. and also, again, as pat said, this is a european affair. if anything is going to be done, it's going to have to be done through the international community. it can be on led by the united states and it's going to be led by the europeans, and just one other word of caution as we saw happening in egypt. there are lots of things that are happening behind the scenes, out of the public view, that we don't know about yet. so while everyone is criticizing the president for not doing anything, i think down road we're going to hear about all sorts of things the administration has been doing behind the scenes to get a handle on the situation, to protect american lives on the ground, to protect not only american interests but european interests, because let's not forget, oil. >> okay, more moammar. >> moammar gaddafi spoke to the libyan people on thursday by telephone. his one-hour message was transmitted by libyan tv and rebroadcast on the al-jazeera website. gaddafi tried to shift the blame to
one, the united states doesn't have the same length in libya as it did in egypt. and also, again, as pat said, this is a european affair. if anything is going to be done, it's going to have to be done through the international community. it can be on led by the united states and it's going to be led by the europeans, and just one other word of caution as we saw happening in egypt. there are lots of things that are happening behind the scenes, out of the public view, that we don't know about...
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it's important the united states do that. >> how? >> i think we do what we didn't do in egypt over the last couple of years, which is press for gradual reforms so you don't wind up creating a tinderbox that explodes. reforms can be undertaken in jordan, algeria and elsewhere. it's not going to be easy. you do have to start pressing in that direction. >> and in a prescient article, bob said just before the uprising started, we had been looking the other way in country after country in the middle east. this is a time to demand some gradual but real reforms. right now, there's been a perfect storm of three conditions. the growing connectivity in the middle east. phenomenal what is happening 5 million people on facebook in egypt. there's been the growing unemployment among the young. it's been a tinderbox, especially after the global recession. and also this real organization of a dozen to 15 real leaders, including the man from google doing creative and important things. there is real leadership behind this movement. >> let me ask about
it's important the united states do that. >> how? >> i think we do what we didn't do in egypt over the last couple of years, which is press for gradual reforms so you don't wind up creating a tinderbox that explodes. reforms can be undertaken in jordan, algeria and elsewhere. it's not going to be easy. you do have to start pressing in that direction. >> and in a prescient article, bob said just before the uprising started, we had been looking the other way in country after...
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states prevailed over the losers and europe and the united states we're on the winning side and it was in the interest of the winning side to find out a lot about crimes from the losing side from the side they stood up against after the need to intervention and the de facto creation of an independent kosovo state under nato and e.u. protectorate as we saw it in the last years before independence well the sings we're so father to return to serbia of the problems was almost impossible because this would have resulted certainly not a round of war the permanent administration of course the war as a colony or as a protectorate was not feasible as well so in the end there was no other way than granting independence which was to my feeling not right because it was against international rules against the law of the peoples as we know it when it was council of europe and an austrian m.p. you hence you can put benedict says he wants to learn russian that's what he told dimitri medvedev he's currently on an official visit to the vatican just over a year since moscow and who really see restored ti
states prevailed over the losers and europe and the united states we're on the winning side and it was in the interest of the winning side to find out a lot about crimes from the losing side from the side they stood up against after the need to intervention and the de facto creation of an independent kosovo state under nato and e.u. protectorate as we saw it in the last years before independence well the sings we're so father to return to serbia of the problems was almost impossible because...
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states, the united kingdom, and other western states. this is an electronic magazine, potential to trigger young and alienated muslims to commit acts of violence in the united states and canada in particular because there are many canadians that really follow al aki. there is no question about that. it is directly linked to al qaeda central, operating in somalia, and it continues to wage a fairly successful insurgency against the transition of national government, backed by the united nations, certainly backed by united states. several thousand young americans of somali descent have travel to somalia to fight for them. at least a couple have murdered themselves, committed suicide operations in that fight. our concern is not about an inbound threat directly from central, but from those who have gone to somalia, train, by in military operations, and return. many still radicalized and capable of committing terrorist acts. al shabab remains a fertile ground for recruiting extremists not only in united states but also in western europe. one o
states, the united kingdom, and other western states. this is an electronic magazine, potential to trigger young and alienated muslims to commit acts of violence in the united states and canada in particular because there are many canadians that really follow al aki. there is no question about that. it is directly linked to al qaeda central, operating in somalia, and it continues to wage a fairly successful insurgency against the transition of national government, backed by the united nations,...
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the united states cannot be neutral. the united states is involved in -- and affairs. there is an extensive relationship. economic, military, cultural. their areas of cooperation between the two countries. the united states cannot look at events in egypt the way, for instance, india can look at them. there is a great worry in washington as well as in cairo that if things get out of hand in egypt, this will give an opening to al qaeda, those people hiding in the caves of afghanistan and pakistan. many of them are egyptian, like house, erie, probably the most important man and al qaeda -- al-zawahiri. followers in egypt and these people might go back to egypt. united states cannot be neutral because the al qaeda declared war on the united states. for anybody to say we should minder on business here in this country, it is a bit, i am sorry to say, nine eve. this is the world. it is very independent. the united states cannot just allow things to get out of hand in a pivotal country where the united states has tremendous interests -- strategic and otherwise. people talk abo
the united states cannot be neutral. the united states is involved in -- and affairs. there is an extensive relationship. economic, military, cultural. their areas of cooperation between the two countries. the united states cannot look at events in egypt the way, for instance, india can look at them. there is a great worry in washington as well as in cairo that if things get out of hand in egypt, this will give an opening to al qaeda, those people hiding in the caves of afghanistan and...